The Community Health Center

You are the administrator of arural community health center. The community health center has just implemented a new electronic medical records (EMR) system.  Discuss how this new EMR system can be used to enhance services provided by the community health center.  How can meaningful use of the EMR data be used to establish acontinuous quality improvement process for the community health center?  Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates ’posts. Shirley Larue RE: Week 9Discussion COLLAPSE Overall Rating:  1  2  3  4  5  1  2  3  4  5 Discuss how this new EMR system can be used to enhance services provided by the community health center. With the EHR provider can have the same accurate and up to date information about patient:1-seeing multiple specialists 2-Receiving treatment in emergency settings 3-Making transitions between care settings 4-Better availability of patient information 5- Monitor and improve the overall quality of care within the practice. Electronic health records can improve public and population health outcomes. By efficiently collecting data in a form that can be shared across multiple health care organizations and leverage for quality improvements and prevents activities.EHR can 1-improve public health reporting and surveillance. Making iteasier for the organization to collect standardized systematic EHR will improve your reporting capabilities. htts.healthhit.gov. www. healthcare business today